Birkenhead YMCA chief executive Nigel Hughes said: “We want to engage with the community by helping people to realise the value of the river.”

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HMS Liverpool visits the city for the final time this Wednesday (February 29) when the Type 42 destroyer ties up at Liverpool Cruise Terminal at 9.30am. The crew will march to the Town Hall, to return the warship’s Freeman scroll, on Friday. The ship will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4, from noon-4pm. HMS Liverpool sails a week today, at 11am, for final exercises off Norway, before retirement. Commentary will be given by ex-chief pilot Stuart Wood.

TRIBUTE to Titanic, An Experience in music and words with Liverpool Welsh Choral Union will be staged at 7.30pm on Saturday, March 24, at the Anglican Cathedral. Tickets: 1st class £20, 2nd class £15, steerage £10, children/concessions £5. Call Mavis Owens on 0151 652 6374.

BBC Radio Merseyside will charter a Mersey ferry for its Alzheimer’s Society Spring Cruise on Saturday, April 14, picking up at Seacombe at 10.30am, Liverpool Pier Head and Woodside. The three- hour cruise will be hosted by Andy Ball and Stuart Wood. Tickets cost £17.50 and are available from the ferry terminals.

THE family of Alf Bordessa, who died last week, would like to welcome all to his funeral at Our Lady & St Nicholas seamen’s church, Chapel Street, Liverpool, at 12.30pm tomorrow, Anfield Crematorium at 1.30pm and afterwards at Eldonian Village Hall, Vauxhall. Alf was ex-chairman of Liverpool Retired Merchant Seafarers 1997-2007 and co-founder of Liverpool Merchant Navy Day with Bill Anderson RMT and Canon Nicholas Frayling. A Liverpool Collegiate pupil he graduated from Dicky Bond’s catering college to pantry man on the big liners. Alf was a smart dresser and fine dance hall singer/ musician.